Private Fee Increases Survey 2011-12

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It's that time of year again. dd's will be +3% for 2011-12

ds fees went up 4.45% lower than in previous years

Just 1% here.

5% here.

3% here.

Ours are unchanged this year.

nearly 4% for me

Nearly 5% here.

Is this normal ? New to indie sector, DS only been there two terms. Do fees go up every year ?

hahahah

+3%

almost 5% here

shivanjali - yes they will always go up

yes about 3% here, soon to break the £5000 a term barrier.

shivanjali - the fees at DS's prep stayed the same for the first 3 years (thank you God), but have gone up, slowly, over the past 3.

Sign of the times I fear!

It's still an amazing affordable prep school though, so I'm not complaining.

Ratherbe... ours have just passed £3K per term. £5K would be a nightmare.

3.5% here.

Don't know yet. I expect we will find out when we get back after April now.

We are senior though - a senior day in SW London. Nuff said.

OK - that explains it.

2 percent here ! Stayed the same for last 4 years

Sorry, didn't mean to sound so daft, of course fees will go up (as opposed to down - fat chance) but I was just trying to gauge if it happens annually or ever few years. Fees have been static for past three years here so rise was probably inevitable but I wasn't expecting +5%.

2.75%

One prep near us put their fees up by 10% last year. Not sure what their increase is this year.

Our school fees have gone up 7% a year for the past three years.

+3.8% here for one school, haven't heard from the other yet

Shivanjali and others - they will go to whatever level the market - that's you - will stand. There was a TERRIFYING article form a former guvvernor at the Dragon saying that he'd presided over one eyewatering - his word - increase after another. In ds's 10+ years in the indy sector fees went up by over 100%. They have No Mercy. They are businesses, like the oil companies, and they will charge what the parents will pay.

So if it's marginal for you, I would really think about when you want to spend the money - obvious times IMHO are 4-8 and 16-18.

They are not all businesses though, some are charitable trusts

The charitable trusts act like businesses, in the main.